- compelling short fiction by writers such as Kelly Link, Mary Robinette Kowal, Michael Moorcock, and many others;
- the science fiction field’s most respected and outspoken opinions on Books, Films, and Science;
- humor from our cartoonists and writers.
- “Imagine Yourself Happy” by Premee Mohamed (fiction)
- “Kodakromen” by Elizabeth R. McClellan (poem)
- “Choosing” by Susan Taitel (fiction)
- “Chocolate Pudding” by David Hammond (fiction)
- “Protocol” by Jamie Simpher (poem)
- “Incense” by Megan Chee (fiction)
- “Queso for Baba” by Nicholas Batura (fiction)
- “The Bestiary” by Diana Dima (poem)
- “Cake By The Ocean” by Lindz McLeod (fiction)
- Bathsheba’s Corsage, Elena Sichrovsky (poetry)
- In the Forest of Talking Animals, Makena Onjerika (fiction)
- Kagewani, Betsy Aoki (poetry)
- Lifting the Veil Between the Living and the Dead: DÌa de los Muertos in Oaxaca, N.K. van Riemsdijk (nonfic)
- All The Things I Know About Ghosts, By Ofelia, Age 10, Isabel Cańas (fiction)
- Ask a Necromancer: One From the Valuts, Amanda Downum (nonfic)
- Sisyphus, Mid-Flight, Leah Bobet (poetry)
- Vajra Chandrasekera
- Arkady Martine
- Fran Wilde
- Shweta Narayan
- Isabel Cañas
- C.S.E. Cooney
- Marissa Lingen
- Maria Haskins
- Alix E. Harrow
- Natalia Theodoridou
- Premee Mohamed
- R.B. Lemberg
- Leah Bobet
- Loren Rhoads
- Richard Butner
- G.V Anderson
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #395
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #395 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by James Morrow and Michael Echeverri Rivera.
Uncanny Magazine Issue 55
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe November/December 2023 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Naomi Kritzer, Jeffrey Ford, Kel Coleman, Cecil Castellucci, Marissa Lingen, Chelsea Sutton, and Ana Hurtado. Essays by John Scalzi, Amanda-Rae Prescott, Paul Cornell, and Lee Mandelo, poetry by Carlie St. George, Tehnuka, Lora Gray, and Angela Liu, interviews with Jeffrey Ford and Marissa lIngen by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Paul Lewin, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
Apex Magazine Issue 141
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedStrange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.
APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards.
We publish every other month.
Issue 141 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews.
EDITORIAL
Musings from Maryland by Lesley Conner
ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION
Hole World by J.S. Breukelaar
Nightglow Pizza by A.M. Lomuscio
Homewrecker by E. Catherine Tobler
All the Good You Did Not Do by Jolie Toomajan
Papas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Slug Monsters by Erica Satifka
Twenty Pieces of Documentation Presented to the Emergency Committee on the Study and Understanding of the M3D1154 Contagion by Damien Angelica Walters
FLASH FICTION
Wet, Dry, Bitter by Leah Ning
Woman Embracing Woman, on Loan From Private Collection by Liv Strom
CLASSIC FICTION
Bettina by R.J. Joseph
Birds by Zin E. Rocklyn
NONFICTION
Dog is in the Details by Sarah Pinsker
Between the Dreaming and the Dead by Leanna Renee Hieber
Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by AC Wise
INTERVIEWS
Interview with Author J.S. Breukelaar by Marissa van Uden
Interview with Author Jolie Toomajan by Marissa van Uden
Interview with Cover Artist Peter Mohrbacher by Bradley Powers
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 162 (November 2023)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedLIGHTSPEED is a digital science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF-and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.
Welcome to issue 162 of LIGHTSPEED! We’re starting the month with a new story from MKRNYILGLD: “The CRISPR Cookbook (Chapter Two): A Guide to Biohacking Your Own Eggs into Weapons of Destruction, to Be Forcibly Implanted into One Patriarchist at a Time”). The engineering continues! We’re also delighted to welcome Regina Kanyu Wang to our pages! Her story “A Record of Lost Time”-translated by bestselling author Rebecca F. Kuang-was listed in the annual recommendation list of the Chinese Science Fiction database, and selected into two annual best anthologies by mainstream literary scholars in China. This is its first appearance in English, and we think you’ll appreciate its insight into our modern crisis of constant productivity. We also have two terrific flash SF pieces: “A Review: The Reunion of the Survivors of Sigrun 7” from Lars Ahn and “Confession #443 (Comments open)” by Dominica Phetteplace.
Our fantasy offerings this month include “Last Ritual of the Smoke Eaters,” a new short by Osahon Ize-Iyamu about the complexity of relationships. Martin Cahill brings us a story about clairvoyance in his new short “The Moment Before the Moment.” We also have a flash story (“Of Death Deserved We Will Not Die”) from Bennett North, and another (“Dr. Seattle Opens His Heart”) from Winston Turnage. We also have spotlight interviews with our authors and a variety of book reviews to inform your next reads. And if you’re an ebook reader, you can look forward to a book excerpt from THIS DARK DESCENT by Kalyn Josephson.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 134 (November 2023)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedNIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE’s pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
Welcome to issue #134 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Sharang Biswas (“Waiting for Jonah”) and Woody Dismukes (“The Curse of the Boto Boy”). Our Horror Lab originals include a poem (“Awakening”) from Tiffany Morris and a flash story (“Whatever Takes Us”) from Aigner Loren Wilson. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors, and an entry in our de_crypt_ed review column.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2023
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine which is the original publisher of SF classics like Stephen King’s Dark Tower, Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for Algernon, and Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz. Each double-sized bimonthly issue offers:
For more information and to sample some of our articles, Please visit our web site.
Novellas
Novelets
Short Stories
Poems
Departments
CARTOONS: Arthur Masear, Lynn Hsu, Nick Downes, S. Harris, Mark Heath.
COVER BY ALAN M. CLARK FOR “THE MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF LOVE”
Small Wonders Magazine – Issue 5
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSmall Wonders is a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry. Issue 5 (November 2023) contains:
The Dark – Issue 102
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedEach month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:
“A is for Alphabet” by Steve Rasnic Tem
“In the Smile Place” by Tobi Ogundiran (reprint)
“Auscultation” by J.S. Breukelaar
“Never Lie to Me” by Priya Chand (reprint)
Locus November 2023 (#754)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe November 2023 issue of Locus magazine is a special issue, “Dimensions of Wonder: Focus on Short Fiction,” featuring interviews with Carmen Maria Machado and a roundtable on short fiction with Ted Chiang, Kelly Link, and Usman T. Malik. The issue also includes spotlights on khōréō, Omenana, and The Sunday Morning Transport, and essays on short fiction by Neil Clarke, A.T. Greenblatt, José Pablo Iriarte, Ai Jiang, Tobi Ogundiran, and Eugenia Triantafyllou. News covers the 2023 Hugo Awards winners, World Fantasy Awards, British Fantasy Awards, Ditmar winners, Simon & Schuster news, and much more. Event coverage includes ICon: Tel Aviv 2023, Can*Con 2023, and the Science Fiction Research Association and Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung’s joint annual conference, Disruptive Imaginations. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “Don’t Be Evil”. Obituaries remember Michael Flynn, Michael D. Toman, Rekka Korol Jay, Pat Diggs, and Helena Binns. Reviews cover new titles by Cadwell Turnbull, Christopher Barzak, E. Lily Yu, Sharon Emmerichs, Anna Smith Spark, Megan E. O’Keefe, Thea Guanzon, Francis Spufford, Naomi Alderman, Mónica Ojeda, Anya Johanna DeNiro, Rebekah Bergman, Maureen Kincaid Speller, Hiromi Kawakami, Sarah Davis-Goff, Anbara Salam, Ava Reid, Daniel Kraus, Yume Kitasei, Walter Mosley, Tananarive Due, C.J. Cherryh & Jane S. Fancher, Lavie Tidhar (ed), D.L. Soria, and more.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 206
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedClarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art.
Our November 2023 issue (#206) contains:
* Original fiction by Bo Balder (“Eddies are the Worst”), Hannah Yang (“Bird-Girl Builds a Machine”), James Van Pelt (“The Long Mural”), Louise Hughes (“The Parts That Make Me”), Thomas Ha (“The Mub”), Thoraiya Dyer (“Eight or Die (Part 1)”), Kemi Ashing-Giwa (“Thin Ice”), and Tia Tashiro (“To Carry You Inside You”).
* Non-fiction includes an article by Priya Sridhar, interviews with David D. Levine and Cory Doctorow, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 106
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedForever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke.
Our November 2023 issue features “Passelande” by Robert Reed, “Better” by Tom Greene, and “Passion Summer” by Nick Wolven. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #122 November 2023
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe November 2023 Issue of Flash Fiction Online. Fantasy, science fiction, horror, and literary short fiction for the modern reader.
Bold. Brief. Beautiful.
Fiction in fewer words.
In this month’s issue:
Editorial: Seasons Change by Anna Yeatts
The First Day of the Week by Carina Bissett
The Anatomy of Witchdaughter by Nadine Aurora Tabing
Downfall by Heather Truett
In Search of Body by Yelena Crane
Flash Fiction Online offers readers flash fiction stories from more established, award-winning authors and newer writers just emerging in the fiction story-scape. We publish literary, science fiction, fantasy, and horror, in a delicious mix of interesting characters, tantalizing plots, and wonderful world-building.
Flash fiction might be small, but each story packs an entire story arc into only a thousand words or fewer. Whether you call this art form a short-short, a micro-fiction, a drabble, or a smokelong, it spans all genres and literary styles.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #394
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #394 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by R.K. Duncan and Marilyn Hope.
On Spec Magazine #125 VOL 33 No 3
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedVolume 33 No 3 issue of On Spec Magazine.
This issue features short stories by Antony Paschos (A Fairytale for Sofie”), R. Keelan (“Oh Exemplary Restraint: So Rare in the Modern World!”), Pascal Raud (“The Chameleon”), Carolyn Watson (“The Trombone, The Pianist, The Four-Wheeler , and the Zombies”), A.J. Wells (“The Written Future”), A. Reid Johnson (Alien Anthropologist”), Lorina Stephens (“The Keening of a Sparrow”), Brendy Tremayne (“Folklore”), and Fiona Moore (“And If Venice IS Sinking”). Poetry by Renee Cronley (“The Sisters Three”), M.W. Irving (“Letter to a Brother on a Generation ship”), Crystal Sidell (“soliloquies under division”), and Angel Leal (“Under the Protection of a Long-Living Fungus”). Interview with Carolyn Watson by Roberta Laurie. Cover by Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk and Steve Fahnestalk. Interview with Lynne and SteveFahnestalk by Cat McDonald. Editorial by Diane L. Walton. Cartoon and featured ‘bot by Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk, with photography by Steve Fahnestalk.
The Deadlands – Issue 30
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Deadlands is a magazine that publishes short stories, poems, and essays about the other realms, of the ends we face here, and the beginnings we find elsewhere. Here’s what you can look forward to in the October 2023 issue (#30) of The Deadlands:
The Deadlands: Year One collects short fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from our first year, including authors such as
Suzan Palumbo
and more!
Underland Arcana 11
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThis issue is the cool downdraft that precedes fall. We have seen the towering thunderheads, the churning updrafts that come before the fire, and the dismal quiet that can suffocate us with stillness. Throughout—in spite of it all, perhaps—there are still stories to be heard: stories about seekers, stories about those who are adrift, and stories about how we find our way in unfamiliar landscapes.
Here are stories from Phillip E. Dixon, J. Anthony Hartley, J. V. Gachs, Gerri Leen, Mark Mills, John Klima, Reggie Kwok, Jon Lasser, Daniel Dagris, and Christopher Hawkins.